So long, Sonics!

Sonics going-away party.

Good idea.

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Btw, my scorn (and boycotting of Starbucks) for the position taken by Starbucks Chairman Howard Schultz — also the head man at the Sonics' organization — is not in conflict with my general admiration for Starbucks' contribution to American culture. Howard's just dead wrong on what Seattle owes the Sonics..

Comments

[Gomez]

Great idea. However, their current lease does not expire until 2010, so even if we turn them down, they'll stay for a few more years. That would be a rather uncomfortable situation.

[David Sucher]

Oh I really don't _want_ the Sonics to leave. A small public subsidy, something symbolic at this scale, ten million, wouldn't bother me. But in pure dollar terms, there are far, far more important things to with $200 million that give it to millionaires and millionaire ball players.

If they can't make money here and they have to go somewhere they think they can, then they have to go.

[Gomez]

Oh, I agree with that. Let them walk if they aren't willing to pony up their own money for what they want. This city has a ton of needs that need to come before rebuilding KeyArena to the Sonics' specs on the city's dime. Let them be someone else's problem.

But, given recent rumblings about Renton as a new site, maybe the region won't lose them after all. We'll see how this plays out.

[Brian Miller]

$10 million as a "small public subsidy"? Wow.

Count me in as a fervent atheist when it comes to America's real religion, professional bread and circuses-er, I mean, "sports."